Harddrive suddenly got really slow

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My computer has multiple hard drives. The one I am asking about has my Steam games and backups of websites I built for work.

Last night I noticed my Steam games got really slow and was frequently crashing when loading a new area or a cut scene. I restarted my computer to see if that would help but it looks like any operation on that drive is extremely slow.

As in

  • Trying access files tends to crash file explorer.
  • Took steam about an hour to open.
  • Took more than 2 hours to transfer 1GB of data to another drive
  • Running chkdsk took about 20 minutes to say it is ntfs. Been running for over an hour and didn't say anything else. Any other drive takes about a few minutes to scan everything.

I monitored the drive with the task manager and it looks like the issue is really high response times? The disk is at 0 read/write and then peaks every 6-20 seconds for about 1 second.

image of the task manager showing disk data with high response time

Any idea what is wrong with my hard drive?

If it's failing is there a faster way for me to transfer my files to one of my other drives?

Yamiko

Posted 2016-05-14T17:31:51.343

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Possible hard disk failure. Check your hard drives for SMART errors How can I read my hard drive's SMART status in Windows 7?, and What is the easiest method of checking SMART status for your hard drive?

– DavidPostill – 2016-05-14T18:07:56.513

Have you done a sweep for malware? You should consider a cloud solution like GitHub or BitBucket for backing up websites.

– Burgi – 2016-05-14T18:22:35.817

completely failed now while i was trying to back up the data. any way I can recover it after it completely fails? – Yamiko – 2016-05-14T20:09:02.750

@burgi i use git. losing the data wont effect me that much. main thing is i kept assets and contract backups with the sites. since they are backups im fine.

biggest thing i am going to lose is my game save data for my games. was at the last boss of dark souls 3 :'( – Yamiko – 2016-05-14T20:10:23.727

I believe Dark Souls games are saved to the Steam cloud (that is a question for our sister site [arqade.se] to confirm though). – Burgi – 2016-05-14T20:15:45.957

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